with Noel Edmonds
Join him at 9.30 this morning when lines open on [number removed] and, if you're lucky enough to get through, you can swap news, jokes and general chat with all the people who'll be calling in today.

Swaporama with Keith Chegwin
If you want to join him, here's a clue - but take it with a pinch of 'salt' and a 'glassy' stare. On second thoughts, no clue this week! It would be too easy!

9.45* There's Triple Trouble this morning!
There's Tom and Jerry, but who's the third? (No, it's not Maggie Philbin, but she'll be around this morning.)

News Swap with John Craven
Get your news in to John as fast as you can - and phone in if you like with the last-minute stories.

Swap of the Pops
Who knows what the New Year will bring? This issue of RADIO TIMES goes to press so early there's no way of guessing who you'll want to hear today! One thing is certain - there'll be a load of music - and if you let us know who you want, we'll try to get them to call in.

10.45* It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
Feel like a laugh? Then Star Swap with Little and Large. They'll be around today for a joke and a swap, so why not give them a ring?

Join in Noel's Top Ten Swap and all the other happenings either by phone or by dropping us a line to: Multi-Coloured Swap Shop, [address removed].

The Multi-Coloured Swap Shop Book, £1.25, from bookshops

12.13 pm Weather JACK SCOT

Introduced by Frank Bough

12.20*
Football Focus
With Bob Wilson

12.50; 1.20; 1.50*
Racing from Haydock Park
1.0 Philip Cornes Novice Hurdle (2 3/4mile)
1.30 Tote Northern Hurdle (2 3/4mile)
2.0 Tote Northern Chase (3mile)
Commentator: Peter O'Sullevan
Commentator: Richard Pitman

1.10; 1.40; 2.35*
Ski-Jumping from Bischofshofen
The climax of a week-long competition to find the winner of the Four Hills Championship.
Commentator: David Vine

2.10; 3.50*
International Tennis from The Grand Hall, Olympia
The Braniff Airways World Doubles Championship
Semi-finals day in this richest-ever doubles event being staged in Europe for the first time. The winners this afternoon are guaranteed £20,000 with a chance to double that by winning tomorrow's final.
Commentator: Dan Maskell
Commentator: John Barrett

2.50*
Rugby League
The John Player Trophy - Semi-final
Grandstand covers the second half of today's big match which will decide one of the finalists in this prestigious competition.
Commentator: Eddie Waring

3.35*
Cricket: Fourth Test from Sydney
Australia v England
Highlights of the opening day's play which ended just a few hours ago.
Commentator: Jim Laker

4.40* Final Score
Classified football results, match reports and the latest news of other sports, including rugby and racing.

Today's timetable:
12.20 Football Focus:
12.50 Racing
1.10 Ski-Jumping
1.20 Racing
1.40 Ski-Jumping
1.50 Racing
2.10 Tennis
2.35 Ski-Jumping
2.50 Rugby League
3.35 Cricket
3.50 Tennis
4.40 Final Score
*Timings subject to alteration

Television presentation:
Football Focus: Mike Murphy
Racing: Nick Hunter
Ski-Jumping: Australian Television Service
Tennis: Fred Viner
Rugby League: Keith Phillips
Cricket: Australian Broadcast Commission

Grandstand producer: Martin Hopkins
Editor: Harold Anderson

Presenting the optimistic, indestructible panther who is permanently in-the-pink and the Inspector with unquenchable joie de vivre who hardly ever gets his man, in a triple helping of comic fantasy.
Today: Pink Panic; Transylvania Mania; An Ounce of Pink

with Peter Woods; Weatherman

with Jimmy Savile , OBE
If you want to ride in the real Wild West,
Or firing a cannon is what you like best,
If you want to drive the James Bond car,
Or be a silent movie star,
Jim'll Fix It.

Have you got an unusual or special wish? Jimmy will try to make it come true.

When his cattle are stampeded by a vast buffalo herd, Sandy McKenzie reluctantly joins the obsessive Charlie Gilson for what may be one of the last buffalo hunts. It is 1883 and the great herds are now confined to the Black Hills of Dakota.

Tough and rough - but likeable and friendly. Two young cops walk a tightrope in the world of crime. Starring Paul Michael Glaser as Starsky, David Soul as Hutch
(Repeat)

with Peter Woods
Weather

Join Michael Parkinson and his guests of the week for conversation, entertainment and the occasional surprise.